Poetic Unit AP Literature Flashcards

5732531636	Verse	a literary for that employs a marked rhythm, usually employs rhyme, usually uses a fixed stanza pattern and sometimes employ a figure of speech.	0
5732540868	Meter	is to poetry what the beat or time signature is to music. a systematic arrangement of heavily stressed or accented and lightly stressed or unaccented syllables	1
5732549346	Poetic Foot	A combination of one accented syllable with one or more unaccented syllables	2
5732553294	Iambic	a poetic foot. where one unaccented syllable is followed by an accented. ( /- strong weak)	3
5732557508	Trochaic	a poetic foot. that is reverse of iambic ( -/, weak strong)	4
5732561227	Anapestic	a poetic foot. accented following two unaccented syllables (--/, weak, weak strong) (introduce)	5
5732601972	Dactylic	poetic foot. Reverse of anapestic ( /--, strong, weak, weak) (tenderly)	6
5732606030	Amphibraic	poetic foot. one accented syllable between two unaccented (-/- , weak strong weak)	7
5732622449	line	a line of poetry is named according to the number of poetic feet in the line	8
5732626517	Monometer	one line or foot (-/)	9
5732627562	Dimeter	two feet	10
5732630147	Trimeter	Three feet	11
5732630955	Tetrameter	four feet	12
5732631609	Pentameter	five feet	13
5732633468	Hexameter	six feet	14
5732635263	Heptameter	seven feet	15
5732636021	Octameter	eight feet	16
5732637125	Scansion	a term used when we look at the line of poetry in order to establish it's full name (ex: iambic pentameter, anapestic tetrameter, dactylic trimeter, trochaic trimeter, etc.)	17
5732659498	Spondee	Two stressed syllables are placed next to each other to cause jarring or stopping of the rhythmic flow of a line. usually, results in the emphasis on the words where the spondee rests	18
5732682787	Rhyme	the exact or close similarity in sound between words - to tie lines together by the repetition of similar sounds	19
5732688730	End Rhyme	the words at the ends of the lines of poetry are made to sound the same intentionally	20
5732691798	Masculine	type of end rhyme that ends in a stressed syllable	21
5732692866	Feminine	type of end rhyme where the last syllable is unnacented	22
5732694972	Triple	type of end rhyme that usually is used for comic relief	23
5732699881	Assonance	a Half rhyme where the vowel sound of two words is matched without any regard for the consonants	24
5732703351	Consonance	a half rhyme where the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ	25
5732707167	Internal Rhyme	a word in the middle of the line is made to rhyme with a word at the end of the same line, or several words within the line are rhymed	26
5732712702	Refrain	the repeating of words or groups of words within or the end of a stanza. tends to produce a lingering effect on the memory thus serves to emphasize	27
5732718050	Blank Verse	A pattern of poetry that employs iambic pentameter lines but no rhyme. Has rhythm but no rhyme	28
5732728083	Free Verse	this pattern is bound to no fixed rhyme scheme and the rhythm varies constantly. some of them almost looks like a prose	29
5732737735	Quatrain	this pattern is common in lyrics and narrative poetry. it employs for lines tied together by rhyme, this form is used to express emotion in a simple manner or to tell a story ( ABCD, ABBA, ABAB, ABCA)	30
5732748789	Triplet	three lines have been linked together with rhyme	31
5732751475	Couplet	consists of two lines usually of the same length tied together by rhyme	32
5732754810	open couplet	a thought hasn't been completed	33
5732755620	closed couplet	thought is complete	34
5732756398	lyric stanza	this pattern very common in lyric poetry. the poet is free to make up any pattern of line he chooses but once a pattern is created he must stick to it through the rest of the stanza. the number of lines if a stanza is to name stanza pattern	35
5732761834	sonnet	this pattern employs 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhythm tied together with an intricate rhyme scheme	36
5732767087	Octave	the first 8 lines expresses a problem or a description of some experience, rhyme scheme usually varies but usually is abbaabba	37
5732769310	setset	the next six lines offer a solution to the problem or the comment on the experience, the pattern usually varies but is mostly cdecde or a combination ccddee	38
5732777140	shakespearian or elizabethan or english	first 12 lines are often arranged into three quatrains, each of which given some aspect or thought about an experience. usually abab, cdcd, efef	39
5732781688	Figure of Speech	a word or group of words which in certain ways indicate resemblance or difference usually compares one thing to another to bring out contrast or similarity	40
5732785557	Simile	the comparison of one object with another something else which is in some way similar	41
5732788305	Metaphor	one thing is called something else which resembles in some way. does not use connectives	42
5732796762	Allegory	describing one thing in the likeness of another, it is really an expanded metaphor in story form to teach some truth or to illustrate some thought	43
5732801052	Personification	Animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas are spoken as if they were persons	44
5732803546	Hyperbole or exageration	a powerful poetic device when used effectively but very flat if used carelessly	45
5732804815	Apostrophe	Animals, inanimate objects, abstract ideas, absent or dead people are addressed as though present and alive	46
5732811524	Antithesis or contrast	use of contrast words or ideas so that the difference is startling	47
5732812657	Irony	the idea in the mind is quite different from or the exact opposite of the statement made, the purpose may be to deride, ridicule or merely achieve humor	48
5732816936	Metonymy	the use of a word to suggest something always associated with it	49
5732820197	Images and Symbol	visible signs used by the poets to represent or stand for ideas, abstract qualities or emotions. word pictures	50
5732824679	Repeated theme	gives the poem unity and emphasis, colors are often used to achieve this theme	51
5732826286	Allusion	references to some person, please one thing that the after hopes is sufficiently well known to be recognized by the literate person	52